A fireball shot through the Earth's atmosphere at 11pm on Nov. 23

On November 23, residents of Key West and the Florida Panhandle saw a fireball light up the night sky, prompting several phone calls to the police and the American Meteorological Society. Many even took to social media, claiming that a UFO was about to land in Florida.

While this flying object did, indeed, cause panic, (the American Meteorological Society reports receiving over 150 phone calls about the incident) it was confirmed that the object was a bolide simply passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. Evidently, nearly 500,000 of them pass near our planet each year. This one, however, was particularly bright. It passed through the Earth’s atmosphere around 11pm, making it particularly visible.

Most bolides go undetected because they appear either during the day when the light of the sun makes the unnoticeable. They also go undetected when they appear over oceans or uninhabited areas. When they do appear to the human eye, they can seem a little more alarming and mistaken as rare.

For those interested in catching more bolides, they can be seen more readily through a telescope than with the naked eye.

The bolide is reported to have been moving toward the sea from Anna Maria Island. It was about the size of baseball and moving at 40,000 miles per hour. It began its journey near the Gulf of Mexico and about 8 miles from Sarasota, Florida.

Its brightness is categorized as more luminescent than the planet Venus, which is partly what made it so noticeable to us Earth-dwellers.

Though the fireball was mostly seen in Florida, residents as far away as Alabama and Georgia also report bearing witness to the soaring object.

This interview with Montana sheriffs Keith Wolverton and Pete Howard took place on August 3, 2016. We hope the information conveyed in this video will inspire others to realize that the UFOs being seen in our skies are real, and they merit our curiosity and our attention. The importance of their interactions with our nation's nuclear weapons cannot be overstated. If you have additional information concerning UFOs and nuclear weapons, please contact Mr. Robert Hastings (ufohastings@aol.com).

If you have additional information about the events described in this video, or other UFO or cattle mutilation events, please contact Dr. Richard O'Connor (rkojaml@gmail.com).

We encourage the American Veterinary Medical Association to "get real" about the scientific investigation of cattle (and other) mutilation events. To date, their treatment of this phenomenon has been sub-standard for a professional organization dedicated to the health care of animals.

Our most sincere thanks to Montana sheriffs Pete Howard and Keith Wolverton for their participation in this interview.